Public Funding for Data Solver Limited

"In 2017/2018 incidents of personal data breaches reported by UK organisations to the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) increased by 30% compared to 2016/2017 and 8 out of the top-10 reasons for such breaches were accidental or unintentional human errors! Such breaches are impacting consumer trust with only 1 in 5 UK adults trusting businesses with their personal data (ICO (2017)). Data Solver's privacy management software is designed to enable organisations to comply with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Its competitors offer siloed manual data-entry applications which lack automation. These therefore rely on subjective judgements (e.g., the accurate identification and classification of personal information) and are prone to errors by employees. As a result, there is strong regulatory-driven market need for an automated software solution that can facilitate swift and cost-effective compliance with the GDPR. Through this project, Data Solver and its academic partners propose to undertake work that: * enables efficient ongoing privacy management through automated, data-led, decision making and risk management * puts the privacy of individuals at the heart of its solution and in order to reduce the risk of breaches to individual's personal data and * provides legal firms and their clients with a comprehensive, advanced solution to enable them to reduce the costs of compliance management via the scalability or the provision of 'Data Protection Officer (DPO) as a service'"